The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1885.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1503, 1 April 1885, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1885.

The Guardian will not be published on Good Friday.

The annual general meeting of the Ashburton Football Club will bo held at Quill’n Hotel this evening at 7-30. The following are the Ashburton vital statistics for the month of March : Births, 23 ; deaths, 3 ; marriage, 1. The offices of the County Council will be closed from to-morrow evening till Wednesday morning next. The meeting of Justices to revise the jury list for Ashburton has been postponed from Saturday next till Tuesday, April 14. A special train conveying members of tile C. Y.O. to the Easter encampment at W inchester will leave Christchurch at 1 15 p.m. to morrow ; another train leaving Christchurch at 8 30 p.m. will convey the Rifle Corps. Both trains will stop at Ashburton to take up the local contingent. The Ashburton Rifle Volunteers will parade opposite the Post Office at 8 p ra to-morrow.

The Resident Magistrate.will sit in the local Court to-morrow ; the usual weekly sitting of the Court will not be held on Friday.

The following are the Ashburton Hospital returns for the month of March : In Hospital Ist March, 7; admitted during month, 8 ; discharged, 6 ; remaining in Hospital 31st March, 9.

Thiei morning an accident occurred to a man named John Solway, in the employ of Mr John Brown, which, fortunately, was not of a serious character, ft appears that whilst driving a three-horse team and dray loaded with oata opposite Mr Jamieson’s farm on the Beach road, the harness on the shaft horse broke, and the dray tipped up, throwing the driver, with several sacks on top of him, to the ground. The horses then bolted with the dray, and galloped up Moore street into Mr Kidd’s yard, where they were secured by Mr Mab n and Constable Beddek. Solway received a severe shaking, and it will be a few days before he will be able to resume work, but no bones wo r e broken.

The Customs rece : pts in Christchurch last month were L 22,672 18s lid. During; March, 1884, the receipts were L1G.435 Oi lid. Sir Julius Vogel vfill pass through Ashburton by the express to-morrow evening The rainfall at Chertsoy for the month ending March 31 was 4.4 t in. 2.74 in. fell between « p.m. on 220 d and C a.m. on 23rd March. We would remind our readers of the fact that the Ashburton Choral Society will produce Handel’s sacred oratorio “The Messiah” at the Town Hall on Good Friday. The music has been under rehearsal for some months, and the performance promises to bo the greatest musical treat yet < flared to an Ashburton audience. Mrs Hodge and Miss Kidd will take the soprano solos, and the past successes of these two ladies are a sufficient guarantee that the important passages with which they are entrusted will he ably rendered. Miss H. Barrett, a young lady who promises to take the very first rank amongst our vocalists, will sing the contralto solos, and we have no hesitation in p elleting a brilliant triumph for this talented debutant. The tenor and baas solos will be taken by Messrs Piuchel and Gamble respectively, and the chorus is a thoroughly efficient one. Mr Sidney Wolf, who has superintended the rebaarsa's, will act as musical director, and wo hope to see a large attendance at the Town Hall on Friday evening. The racehorses Captain Webster, Taiaroa, Evorton Lad and Guide passed through Ashburton by the express last night en routs for Christchurch, where they will take part in the Autumn Race Meeting. The Christchurch District Drainage Board last night decided to discharge all their officers except the Engineer, to give > up their offices, and make arrangements * for the loca j bodies to collect the rates. 1 These steps are necessary on account of the Board’s financial position, which at 1 present is about L 2,000 a year to the bad. | The Mayor of Christchurch has re T | ceived through His Excellency the Gover f nor a copy of a uoto addressed to Earl , Granville by the United States Minister £ in London, requesting Her Majesty’s Government, through the proper channel, to 8 convey to the inhabitants of Christchurch j. and Lytteltcn an expression of the Pre- t sident’a high appreciation of the generous (. and humane spirit displayed by them in making arrangements with such prompt- j ness for sending a steamer to Campbell 8 Is'and in search of the unfortunate American seamen of the Swah W. Hunt. () Referring to the death of Messrs Camp- 5 f ron and Herbert, war correspondents in h the Soudan, the Morning Adccrfiser says : —“ln men like Cameron and Herbert n and their colleagues—staunch, truthful, u

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Letters from places beyond the colony! I are awaiiing Robert Bingham, Federick Hobden, E. M. Olde, James Sinclair and Thomas VVhito at the local Post Office, where they wore received daring the month of February, 1885. | Our cablegrams this evening convey ( important news from tho Soudan. The ■ Mahdi is harassed by rebellion, and , Orman Digna has enquired for conditions , of peace. • Last night Mr J. Crowes addre-sed a meeting at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Christchurch, on the policy of Si-Julius Vogel Thera was a fair attendance, and tho speaker was well received. Mr Crewes opposed the policy of the Colonial Treasurer, because, in his opnion, it did not either promote tho greatest good to the greatest number or to the most deserving He strongly deprecated tho war fever which had arisen, ami the proposal of Sir Julius Vogel to send money home towards the expanses of the war in tho Soudan, white England was becoming richer every ye ir by one hundred millions. Another unfortunate.—Again we must draw the attention of our readers to the fact that a ,£2,424 stock of Clothing and General Drapery, in the estate of Dennis O’Connell, trading in Lyttelton and Cristchurch, now bankrupt, was purchased by H. E. May & Co., of the Hall, High street, for £954, or only a little over one-third of its value. H. E. M. and Co. are now selling it at half the marked price, which surely ought to secure a speedy clearance. August Flower. —The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than 75 1 per cent of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects ; such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, 1 palpitation of the heart, heartburn, waterbrash, k gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue an 1 dis- ■ agreeable taste in the mouth, coining up of food after eating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of august flower. ’ This valuable medicine has cured thousands

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